So the people who don’t read that scene as either Dean coming to grips with being bi in general or being in love with Cas specifically, how DO they read it?

obsessionisaperfume:

magess:

thevioletcaptain:

The main reading I’ve seen—besides the bi!Dean or Dean/Cas interpretations—is that it was Dean admitting to wanting a long term romantic partner.

After Dean says that he isn’t ready to die, the exchange with Father Delaney goes as follows:

Dean: Recent events, uh, made me think I might be closer to that than I really thought. And I don’t know, I mean, you know, there’s things, there’s people, feelings that I- I- I want to experience differently than I have before. Or maybe even for the first time.

Father Delaney: Go a little deeper, perhaps, than with Gina.

Dean: Yeah… I’m- I’m starting to think that maybe there’s more to it all than I thought.

So Father Delaney connects Dean’s confession of having people and feelings that he wants to experience in new ways to the probably-made-up fling he had with someone named Gina—and Dean agrees. He wants something more in a romantic sense. He wants a relationship.

This is something that has been hinted to in the narrative and through silent storytelling since the beginning of season nine, but after this scene it could only be clearer if he flat out says “I want a long-term partner.”

If there are other interpretations to this I’d love to hear about them, but I really can’t see this exchange suggesting anything other than a desire for romantic love. It’ll take a pretty convincing argument to de-romo this dialogue.

So basically everyone agrees on the wanting a relationship part, but those who don’t see Dean as bi think it’s a general longing for a women yet unmet.

That would be, frankly, really weird ten years in. New character, completely new relationship, adding a 4th person to Team Free Will. Is that the writing on the wall that non-Destiel shippers see?

If it’s actually possible to NO ROMO that confession without contorting the logic into a pretzel, I’m a cat.

And I really don’t see how, given what we’ve seen for the last three seasons, there are any possible candidates for a long-term romance that we haven’t already met, because Dean’s clearly thinking of a particular person, and not someone in the abstract.

And that is a very small pool of candidates. Sam and Charlie are out right off the bat, which reduces the pool even more. Claire and Chrissie are kids, so they’re out. Ann Marie has already NOPED out of the pool. Of the people Dean’s still at all close to, that leaves Donna, Jody… and Cas. And of those three, there’s only one that Dean’s said he ~needed~. Only one he’s ditched Sam and driven for hours to go and see. Only one he’s wished was with him when he felt alone and overwhelmed.

Only. One.